In HITS Theatre’s production of Cats, Jennifer Laporte is Victoria (clockwise from bottom), Austin Jacobs is Munkustrap Abigail Hickman is Grizabella James Hamrick is Rum Tum Tugger, and Christopher Tipps is Mistoffelees. Following what by all accounts was a wonderful opening weekend, the Heights’ own HITS Theatre will close out its production of the Tony […]
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So I go on vacation for a week and a half, expecting a nice quiet time in the Heights while I’m gone and what do I find? This story here about a protest breaking out last night at the corner of Rutland and West 15th over the construction of about 250 new homes all scrunched […]
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Tickets are on sale for the Houston Heights Association‘s annual spring Home & Garden Tour, set for Saturday and Sunday, April 10-11, noon – 6:00 p.m. each day. Themed Now Showing…The Houston Heights, the event will as always show off six of the finest homes in the Heights, some old renovation jobs (with one dating […]
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After getting rained out last week, Antidote Coffee, 729 Studewood Street, will try again Wednesday night to hold its popular series Silent Movies on the Patio with a screening at 7:30 p.m. of The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the oldest existing fully-animated film. I posted last week (repeated below) about this film, and am really […]
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Opera in the Heights opens its production of Puccini’s La Boheme at Lambert Hall, 1703 Heights Boulevard, this weekend. I saw their last production of it and couldn’t say enough good things about it. Not only that, my 85-year-old mother, whose total count of La Boheme performances goes higher than Kiri Te Kanawa’s register, still […]
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Antidote Coffee, 729 Studewood Street, will continue its amazing series Silent Movies on the Patio with a screening at 7:20 p.m. tonight (7:20? What is up with that?) of The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the oldest existing fully-animated film. Words can hardly express how cool I think this is. I have never even heard of […]
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Here’s a nice event going on this weekend that everyone around here might enjoy. Kate Baldwin, star of the play Finian’s Rainbow on Broadway, is coming to Houston this Saturday, March 27, to perform at a benefit for HITS Theatre, the non-profit performing arts and education organization in the Heights. JoAnne Woodard, HITS’ executive artistic […]
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The Woodland Heights Civic Association is hosting a long-overdue party tomorrow, and a well-deserved one at that. The organization will unveil a marker designating the neighborhood as a State of Texas historic site. Representatives of the Harris County Historical Commission and the association will dedicate the marker in a ceremony beginning at 9:30 a.m. at […]
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